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Carriers seek U.S. mobile e911 deadline suspension NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some of the biggest U.S. wireless providers have asked regulators to suspend a December requirement for 95 percent of their phones to support e911 technology that allows emergency workers to pinpoint callers' locations, according to the CTIA mobile industry group on Friday. The Federal Communications Commission has asked operators to support location technology with a view to helping public safety workers such as police officers get to callers more quickly. But operators such as Verizon Wireless, owned by Verizon Communications (VZ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Vodafone Group PLC (VOD.L: Quote, Profile, Research), Sprint Corp. (FON.N: Quote, Profile, Research), Nextel Communications Inc. (NXTL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Alltel Corp. (AT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) could miss the Dec. 31 deadline. "Meeting the deadlines is proving to be a challenge and some or all carriers might not make it," CTIA spokesman John Walls said. While new phones coming from these providers all have location technology, consumers are not changing their cell phones as quickly as the FCC had expected when it set the deadline more than five years ago, the CTIA said. It also said that in many cases where consumers do have location-capable phones their local public safety organization, which handles 911 emergency phone calls, have yet to install gear to receive positioning information from cell phones. The Dec. 31 deadline does not apply to providers, including Cingular Wireless, a venture of BellSouth Corp. (BLS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and SBC Communications Inc. (SBC.N: Quote, Profile, Research), and T-Mobile USA, owned by Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research), as they use a different technology. News Sourcehttp://www.microsite.reuters.com
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